Originally Posted by killer189
If an author makes an addon to help the gaming community and is NOT in it for making a few bucks...then why should they care how its being distributed?
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Well considering an addon is their copyrighted product and is such from the moment of creation .....
Yes they do care...
Would you as an addon author care if it was being distributed in an illegal and immoral manner ? Lets say if thugs were robbing people in the middle of the night and leaving a copy of YourAddonA on a disk behind with the victims ?
Possibly the best reasons why an Addon author cares about how it's being distributed is because of Support Issues. An author needs to know where a user has downloaded a particular version of an addon. The easiest way of doing this is limiting where a user downloads their addons from.